Behold the Cotter Dam

shauno said :

JC said :

shauno said :

I like it its probably the biggest civil engineering project in Australia outside of the Oil and Gas and Mining industrys and hopefully when Labor gets the boot in September a lot more of these projects will be happening.

Yah dreaming. The liberals never build for the future, they only care about winning the next election. Just look at what they are planning on doing to the NBN.

The worlds greatest back of the envelope designed white elephant in the history of man. 70 billion moving swiftly towards 95 billion and counting and at least 2025 by the time its finished. The LNP wont can it what they will do is make a sensible cost benefit analysis of the whole sorry mess and work out how best to finish it off with out sending the budget further into debt. The likes of which we have never seen before.

Where did you get those figures from? Sounds like the figures that either the Daily Terrorgraph or the Liberal party have made up. Oh yeah same thing really!

JC said :

shauno said :

I like it its probably the biggest civil engineering project in Australia outside of the Oil and Gas and Mining industrys and hopefully when Labor gets the boot in September a lot more of these projects will be happening.

Yah dreaming. The liberals never build for the future, they only care about winning the next election. Just look at what they are planning on doing to the NBN.

The worlds greatest back of the envelope designed white elephant in the history of man. 70 billion moving swiftly towards 95 billion and counting and at least 2025 by the time its finished. The LNP wont can it what they will do is make a sensible cost benefit analysis of the whole sorry mess and work out how best to finish it off with out sending the budget further into debt. The likes of which we have never seen before.

Roundhead89 said :

That doesn’t look safe to me. The wall is far too high and the pressure of the water on it might prove to be too much to hold back.

Yes, it’s a well-known fact that dams don’t work. Just look at that Hoover dam in the US. Any day now…

Roundhead89 said :

That doesn’t look safe to me. The wall is far too high and the pressure of the water on it might prove to be too much to hold back.

Well played, sir. This piece of satire was small, yet perfectly formed.

Roundhead89 said :

That doesn’t look safe to me. The wall is far too high and the pressure of the water on it might prove to be too much to hold back.

Totally agree. Looking at a photo from my desk makes me infinitely more qualified than the multitude of engineers who’ve been working on it for years and years.

That doesn’t look safe to me. The wall is far too high and the pressure of the water on it might prove to be too much to hold back.

shauno said :

I hope we are allowed to go fishing in it be great for that. Just like we can in Googong.

No. It will never be. That concession for Googong was only made because the catchment has dodgy water already.

Diggety said :

shauno said :

Diggety said :

Was there ever any talk of increasing the hydroelectric capacity too?

It never was a hydro dam its purely drinking water

Ah, ok. I take it this never went ahead then! http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/tplan/VARIATIO/dv162/Finalv162.pdf

It did, but they integrated the mini-hydro into the Stromlo treatment plant and Googong outlet instead.

shauno said :

Diggety said :

Was there ever any talk of increasing the hydroelectric capacity too?

It never was a hydro dam its purely drinking water

Ah, ok. I take it this never went ahead then! http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/tplan/VARIATIO/dv162/Finalv162.pdf

Diggety said :

Was there ever any talk of increasing the hydroelectric capacity too?

It never was a hydro dam its purely drinking water

I hope we are allowed to go fishing in it be great for that. Just like we can in Googong.